[1] Delaunay's painting style changed quickly in the first decade of the 20th century, keeping pace with the artistic developments of the time.

However, he came under the influence of cubism and the expressionist movement Der Blaue Reiter, with which he exhibited in Munich, in 1911, and his work quickly developed towards his own unique style, orphism, in which defragmentation and surface composition were central, and the figurative would become subordinate to these.

[2] The Eiffel Tower was then the tallest building in the world, and was considered the French symbol par excellence of modernity, especially at the beginning of the 20th century.

Delaunay's Champs de Mars: The Red Tower is primarily intended to radiate the power and dynamism of the modernity and innovation at this time.

Elements of impressionism are still be recognized in his Champs de Mars: The Red Tower, especially in the use of light and color, but soon these influences would almost completely disappear.